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Informationen zum Autor Franco Strocchi is Senior Research Fellow at INFN. He received his Laurea in Physics at the University of Pisa and Diploma in Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1961). He has taught as Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, Trieste (1983-1994), and as Professor of Theoretical Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore (1994-2009). His main research interests include the theory of quantized fields and spontaneous breaking of symmetries. Klappentext The book discusses fundamental aspects of Quantum Field Theory and of Gauge theories, with attention to mathematical consistency. Basic issues of the standard model of elementary particles (Higgs mechanism and chiral symmetry breaking in quantum Chromodynamics) are treated without relying on the perturbative expansion and on instanton calculus. Zusammenfassung The book discusses fundamental aspects of Quantum Field Theory and of Gauge theories, with attention to mathematical consistency. Basic issues of the standard model of elementary particles (Higgs mechanism and chiral symmetry breaking in quantum Chromodynamics) are treated without relying on the perturbative expansion and on instanton calculus. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Relativistic quantum mechanics 2: Mathematical problems of the perturbative expansion 3: Non-perturbative foundations of quantum eld theory 4: General non-perturbative results and examples 5: Euclidean quantum eld theory 6: Non-perturbative S-matrix 7: Quantization of Gauge Field Theories 8: Chiral symmetry breaking and vacuum structure in QCD